Michelle Della Fave and James Anthony are among the swingin' singers joining Joe Muccioli and the Red Bank Jazz Orchestra tonight, during the annual Sinatra Birthday Bash at the Count Basie Theatre.

Written by

Tom Chesek
| For the Asbury Park Press

Call it the second most famous birthday celebrated in December - that of Jersey's own Francis Albert Sinatra, the iconic Chairman of the Board who would have turned 98 years "Young at Heart" on Dec. 12.

It's only fitting, then, that Red Bank's Count Basie Theatre - the landmark auditorium that's long been headquarters to Nutcrackers, Scrooges, Messiahs and other local December traditions - would welcome Ol' Blue Eyes into the holiday mix, with the seventh annual edition of a homegrown concert event known as the Sinatra Birthday Bash.